Sunday, April 16, 2006

Metroid Prime 3 Revolution at E3?

For many reasons, Metroid Prime 3 is considered the flagship title for Nintendo Revolution -- at least in the West, where the first-person shooter is king. And Nintendo knows it.

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McDonalds is healthy in Denmark

Fast food from McDonald's is healthiest in Denmark and worst in the United States, a Danish study comparing levels of the deadliest kind of fat, trans fatty acids, showed.

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Blue Hippo Scam Alert! The $2000+ low end desktop computer.

RAW DEAL! Worst computer deal in the history of scams. They are selling a $300 desktop computer for $2200. They are scamming the public by making it look like an easy payment plan. If the overall price wasn't bad enough, they don't even take on any risk, as they won't ship the computer until you've spent more than $600! Help expose this scam!

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Monday, April 10, 2006

Oblivion - New, Cheaper Content Next Week and Patch Announcement

'We hope to have The Orrery available for purchase next week. This plugin will cost 150pts on Xbox, and $1.89 on the PC.' Also, 'We are working on a patch/update for both the PC and Xbox 360. It is our plan to first release it as a beta patch for the PC when it has cleared our initial testing cycles internally.'

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First In-game Screen shots of a Revolution Game - Red Steel

Wow, they look amazing. Hopefully this game turns out to be pretty damn good.

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The Best Free MMORPG List (and some mmo's)

This is the best and biggest list of free MMORPG's on the Internet! Tons of great stuff here, many things you never heard of.

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It took 15 years to build a precise model of helicopter Mil 24 Hind

Over 100,000 parts were used in this model, many of them fabricated under a microscope to ensure accuracy.
Complete accuracy is followed right down to the rivets and screws whose diameter and separation are kept to scale.




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File-Upload Script With Embedded AJAX Progress Bar

This free script lets you accept file uploads through the web while displaying a progress bar. Very easy to install and modify. Excellent support provided in the project forums.

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Wait until June before you buy your Macinteltosh

The price of Intel Core Duo chips is set to plummet on the 28th of May, and there's faster chips coming along anyroadmap. Those include the 2.33GHz T2700, but this is only the start of better things from Chipzilla later this year.

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Saturday, April 08, 2006

CNET's Test Results of MacBook Pro XP vs. the PC Competition!

Now that Boot Camp finally provides a baseline for a true head-to-head contest of Apple hardware vs. PC hardware, we went out and bought a 2.0GHz MacBook Pro last night. Then dug up some good PC competitors, one of which has almost identical specs. This morning, we started testing. Here's what we found...

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Apple's Fifth Avenue Glass Cube revealed

Workers are taking down the black construction barricade around the glass-cube entrance to the Fifth Avenue (NYC) Apple Store, in preparation for the future grand opening.

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ParallelKnoppix: Create a cluster in 5 minutes

"You can convert a room full of machines running Windows into a Linux cluster, and when you shut down, your Windows machines are in their original state. The computers in the cluster can be homogeneous or heterogeneous. Getting the cluster up and running takes about 5 minutes.."

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Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Apple release new 'Volume Limit' feature for iPod

Apple's new software update for iPod adds a setting where you can choose your maximum volume and set a combonation to avoid the kids changing it!

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Intel iBooks shipping in June

Asustek has secured a contract with Apple for "iBook notebook personal computers"... Apple has secured approximately 1.2 million units initially and will reportedly start selling them in June.. The laptops will be equipped with 13.3" displays.

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Apple Boot Camp Public Beta Announced, Part of 10.5 Leopard

More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today

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Bluetooth iPod prepareing for lift off?

Stuff Magazine claim to have the inside scoop!

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Nintendo DS Lite arriving in North America in May!

The latest issue of EGM reports that the DS Lite is "due in May" on North American shores. The snippet coincides with 1Up's recent speculation, but does not contain further information that would validate this claim. Consider this a rumor... for now.

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Boot Camp or Enemy Action? What The Beta Means.

While Apple's "Boot Camp" may be a shot across the bow of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer won't be throwing any chairs over this one. Yet. The OSx86 Project has some good analysis of what the news means for us all.

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PS3 to retail at $499, developers "confirm"

West coast US developers are claiming SCEA has given them a final price point of $499 for the Playstation3. This story does point out that other Californian developers have heard nothing from SCEA so there are obvious inconsistencies casting doubt over the claim, though some are "adamant" this is the real deal.

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Who needs Boot Camp? New Apple firmware updates DIRECTLY add XP support.

Is this the world of legacy BIOS emulation we all wanted? Is this XP and Linux and Vista and all the OS goodness running on Intel Macs? It seems Boot Camp is designed only to provide XP with drivers, the new firmware update for Intel Macs adds all the support an Intel Mac needs to boot the OS!


Huh, and I thought Apple wasn't going to support people for using windows on there macs.....

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